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“I make a concerted effort to reach out to students who have traditionally been underrepresented in scientific fields, i.e. our students with special needs and disabilities, our minority students and our young women.”

Michelle Shearer

Maryland high school chemistry teacher named 2011 National Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching at Urbana High School in Frederick, Md. for 10 years. She will be honored by President Obama today. Shearer wrote that she has successfully accommodated students with low vision, dyslexia, dysgraphia, attention deficit disorder and Asperger’s syndrome. In between two teaching stints at Urbana High School, Shearer taught science and math at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick.

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-frederick-county-educator-named-national-teacher-of-the-year-20110501,0,6420639.story

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"Chemistry is everywhere, and thus chemistry is for everyone. Everyone. Not just college-bound students, [or] students of a particular ethnic group, or even students of a certain age,"

Michelle Shearer

Maryland high school chemistry teacher named 2011 National Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching at Urbana High School in Frederick, Md. for 10 years. She will be honored by President Obama on Tuesday.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2011/05/01/maryland-chemistry-teacher-named-best-in-nation

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"I am accountable not only for my students' AP scores, but also for fostering habits of mind such as creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and skills essential to success in college and careers."

Michelle Shearer

Maryland high school chemistry teacher named 2011 National Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching at Urbana High School in Frederick, Md. for 10 years. She will be honored by President Obama on Tuesday.

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"This is a historic Legislature, completely controlled by Republicans for the first time. As such, reforms that were once unprecedented have become commonplace."

Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City

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"It is incredible and unacceptable that Oklahoma taxpayers are paying nearly six times the cost of what comparable groups are spending for that same process. This legislation is designed to fix that."

Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, Author of Senate Bill 541.

A study stated that Oklahoma state government has a significantly higher number of full time employees employed to conduct these operations than peer organizations. Oklahoma processes 2,039 accounts payable occurrences for each employee while peer groups are able to account for 15,693 of these same processes with each employee.

The House approved Senate Bill 541 by a vote of 61-34. The legislation now returns to the Senate for additional consideration.

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"The people of our state deserve a government that is funded yearly to the extent that is desired without the use of robbing Peter to pay Paul, or selling bond after bond which only adds to the long-term debt of our great state."

Steve Kouplen, D-Beggs, represents District 24 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.